(Guest post by Roberta Wakerell, Portfolio Marketing Manager for IBM Analytics)
The average analytic maturity of organizations has gone down, not up, in the last three years. This finding comes from surveys completed by over 800 organizations using Gartner’s IT Score Model.
Based on this research, one might argue that many... [Continue Reading]

Intuition, is still a driving factor in many company’s decision making processes. Many organizations still rely on traditional technologies such as spreadsheets or desktop analytic tools in their struggle to derive value from the wealth of data flowing throughout their organizations. This often comes at the expense of data accuracy and,... [Continue Reading]

Software as a Service(SaaS) can make a huge impact on a business. Unfortunately, most start the evaluation of SaaS from an IT perspective and traditional datacenter advantages (i.e. on-premises costs, staffing, and savings). While IT metrics are often easier to measure; it overlooks the all the business advantages of SaaS and therefore... [Continue Reading]

I decided recently to refinance my mortgage. Just when I thought everything was in place for the closing, my loan officer contacted me with some disturbing news--the title search had uncovered a lien from an unfamiliar creditor. Further investigation by the bank and title company revealed that the lien was actually intended for another person with... [Continue Reading]

In a post on the Smarter Planet blog , Suman Mukherjee and I tracked Twitter chatter and sentiment about Jurassic World in the five months before its release. The film opened all over the world from June 10-June 16, 2015, broke all kinds of records over its first weekend and far outperformed even the most optimistic predictions. I... [Continue Reading]

As an IBM® Cognos® Business Intelligence customer, did you know that your organization qualifies for anywhere from 100 to 500 free licenses to IBM Watson™ Analytics Professional Edition?
Well, it’s true! In May, we announced an exciting program that grants 12-month subscription entitlements for IBM Watson Analytics... [Continue Reading]

Healthcare providers like you are feeling the shift in healthcare from fee-for-service to value-based care, where reimbursement is based on cost, quality metrics and patient experience.
Your health care system is embarking on such a value based program and you’re in the thick of it. You are part of a population health... [Continue Reading]

Once you have a suitable business sponsor, who is committed to a performance management initiative, the challenge in making the initiative successful is three-fold.
While it is great to have a grand vision of the ultimate outcome, where a performance driven organization collaboratively makes better and better decisions to create superior... [Continue Reading]

When it comes to performance management modeling, the de facto standard, since its inception in 1992, is Kaplan and Norton’s Balanced Scorecard/Strategy Map approach. Over time, and a number of iterations, this approach has evolved to using a (generic) model which focuses on four perspectives, from bottom to top through cause and effect... [Continue Reading]

Albert Einstein is quoted as saying “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.” He may not have been specifically referring to the discipline of business performance management and “Key Performance Indicators”, but he might as well have been.
It is possible to measure... [Continue Reading]

During a recent customer conversation, we got into a conversation regarding agility in desktop tools versus IT governed data requirements. In the end we came to the conclusion that more collaboration and alignment is required between IT and line of business. I believe the stress between governance and agility is a chasm that... [Continue Reading]

In honor of the recent success of Vision2015, this use case is focused on financial services, risk, loss events and OpenPages GRC.
A sense of loss
You’re on the risk team of a financial services enterprise and you’ve tasked with understanding loss. You have 7 years of loss events recorded in OpenPages GRC. You’re... [Continue Reading]

Is the perfect marriage just an illusion or it just waiting to be discovered? We think we have part of the answer for you, but you must keep reading!
While conventional wisdom says marriage depends on finding the right person, who really knows what makes us compatible with another? One IBM client, Matrimony.com claims they... [Continue Reading]

Analytics are moving with the speed of light and are going for the cloud. This movement was represented in a key theme at the 2015 Gartner BI Summit that stressed the importance of self-service analytics. Self-service tools empower users to think fast and move faster by quickly generating insights from data without the reliance of heavy IT... [Continue Reading]

In my undergrad engineering studies, our class was given a competitive assignment to design the most efficient heat exchanger for a chemical production plant. Designing a good heat exchanger involves many conflicting decisions, such as selecting just the right input and output temperatures, the choice of materials, pipe diameters, pipe lengths and... [Continue Reading]

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